A Story of Intended Consequences and Plural Forms
summary
Shows that project fluent gains automatic ordinal/plural handling by storing formatting options on a Fluent number object and feeding them to Intl.PluralRules via ecma 402 behavior. Claims: English needs six plural categories once ordinals are counted. Tools: icu message format, project fluent, JavaScript Intl APIs. Built: a patchy-but-working Fluent runtime path that routes number-format options into plural selection. Result: it works because ecma 402 permits extra properties on the number format object.
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